Word Meanings - CRIMSON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. Theugh jour be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Is. i. 18. A maid jet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.

Additional info about word: CRIMSON

A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. Theugh jour be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Is. i. 18. A maid jet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty. Shak. (more info) LL. carmesinus, fr. Ar. qermazi, fr. qermez crimson, kermes, fr. Skr. k produced by a worm; k worm or insect +

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRIMSON)

• Incarnadine
• Redden
• rubricate
• crimson

Related words: (words related to CRIMSON)

• RUBRICATE
  Marked with red. Sp
• REDDENDUM
  A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. Cruise.
• INCARNADINE
  Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color. Lovelace.
• REDDEN
  To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.
• CRIMSON
  A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. Theugh jour be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Is. i. 18. A maid jet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.
• ENCRIMSON
  To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson. Shak.